Till to date since the 1980s, whether flexibility is a positive thing for both employers and employees is debated. Even issues responsible to the ambiguity are also debated. This paper attempts to identify some factors or conditions that may make flexibility a positive thing for both employers and employees. This paper reveals that sometimes employers’ flexibility questions employees’ flexibili...

Anecdotal reports and recent reviews assert that expert systems are potentially useful decision aids in human resource management. This study examines the effects of an expert system designed to aid employees when they make their choices in a flexible bellcfit program. A four group quasi-field experimental design is used to examine the relative effects of the expert system compared to a convent...

background the purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (qwl) among hospital employees in iran. additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees’ qwl. it also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees’ qwl and their intention to leave the organisation. methods a survey study was conducted based on a sample ...

Many companies currently strive to support their employees' work-life balance through appropriate measures in order to improve employees' loyalty towards the company and to recruit new employees. In this context, flexibility in the area of working times is a measure that can influence employees' private lives immensely. This is why the individualisation of working time arrangements has been acc...

Due to the rise of social media, many companies have started to implement enterprise social networks (ESNs). Compared to existing systems supporting communication and collaboration in organisations, ESNs can foster employees’ productivity and innovativeness by making previously invisible communication among employees visible. However, this visibility can prevent employees from disclosing inform...

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The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about what motivates employees. This paper briefly describes the seven stages of psychological development and the corresponding levels of motivation. These are linked to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s work on the three types of mind (socialized mind, self‐authoring mind, and self‐transforming mind). Each of the three types of mind has dif...